Tag Archives: world affairs

How the media would report on the end of the world

USA Today: WE’RE DEADWall Street Journal: Dow Jones Plummets as World EndsInc. Magazine: 10 Ways You Can Profit From the ApocalypseRolling Stone: The Grateful Dead Reunion TourSports Illustrated: Game OverLadies Home Journal: Lose 10 Pounds by Judgment Day with Our New “Armageddon” Diet!TV Guide: Death and Damnation: Nielson Ratings Soar!Discover Magazine: How will the extinction… Read More »

Economic prosperity can’t guarantee happiness

In fact, it may have quite the opposite effect, if you read into the findings of the Happy Planet Index. Compiled by an independent British “think and do” tank called nef (the new economics foundation), the index “addresses the relative success or failure of countries in supporting good life for their citizens, whilst respecting the… Read More »